Description: This amendment presents the final text for Appendix D.8 Fermi Guest
Investigator – Cycle 3, which replaces the prior placeholder in its
entirety. The major changes from last year’s call are the due dates, and
that, for proposals from foreign institutions, funds are now available for
Co-Investigators at U.S. institutions.

The Fermi Guest Investigator (GI) program solicits proposals for basic research relevant to the Fermi mission. The primary goal of this mission is to perform 20 MeV to > 300 GeV gamma-ray measurements over the entire celestial sphere, with sensitivity a factor of 30 or more greater than that obtained by earlier space missions. A secondary goal includes the study of transient gamma-ray sources with energies extending from 10 keV up to 300 GeV. The Fermi GI program is intended to encourage scientific participation by providing funding to carry out investigations using Fermi data, to conduct correlative observations at other wavelengths, to develop data analysis techniques applicable to the Fermi data, and to carry out theoretical investigations in support of Fermi observations.

This amendment presents the final text for Appendix D.8 Fermi Guest Investigator - Cycle 3, which replaces the prior placeholder in its entirety. The major changes from last year's call are the due dates, and that, for proposals from foreign institutions, funds are now available for Co-Investigators at U.S. institutions.

Notices of Intent to propose (NOIs) are due November 16, 2009, and proposals are due February 5, 2010. Table 2 and Table 3 of the Summary of Solicitation for this NRA have been updated to reflect this change.

Further information about this program element is available from Dr. Ilana M. Harrus, at (202) 358-1250 or E-mail Dr. Ilana Harris.